More quotes, more plays, and more speed

September has been rather quiet on this blog, but things have been heating up on TypeRacer with almost exactly 1 million games played this month! We’re ending September with some major improvements to the site. While you won’t actually notice many of these changes, they are acting behind the scenes to make TypeRacer work faster and more reliably than ever.

Now you also get to see your accuracy at the end of the race. Accuracy has a significant impact on your overall typing speed and will be highlighted red if it’s below 98%. See if you can get it in the green! Accuracy is calculated as the ratio of mistyped characters over the total number of characters in the text.

We’ve also compiled a large selection of texts about typing. We read several “learn how to type” books from different decades and looked at some historical perspectives on the origins and longevity of the Qwerty keyboard. The Greatest Stories Never Told, for instance, claims that other keyboard layouts, like Dvorak, “are demonstrably more efficient, but the original continues to thrive,” due to “the power of inertia and the reward of being first,” while Famous Fables of Economics argues the opposite: that the Qwerty keyboard has withstood the test of time and that “the best-documented experiments, as well as recent ergonomic studies, suggest little or no advantage for the Dvorak keyboard.”

I have been playing TypeRacer for almost 4 months now. I have tried to improve my typing a million times, but always got bored. But, now I am hooked on to this beautiful game. My typing speed has gone up from 50 wpm to a consistent 70wpm. Thanks for this wonderful game! And keep increasing the database of quotes.

Clarification: the accuracy reported at the end of the race is for the last race only, and it’s a measure of how many corrections you’ve had to make. Since TypeRacer makes you fix all your typos, the fact that you typed all the words doesn’t mean that you have 100% accuracy. It’s not a bug!

Hey. so basically I think you should make typeracer into
TYPE RACER.
it is sooo confusing that those two words are joined to gether, and I usually end up making my own name for it like “poopy racer” because I can remember it more.
I think this site should shut down because its a waste of time for people who want to achieve academic sucess. GAH.
this typing thing sucks. & you need more updated quotes because they are all DUMB and no one has ever heard of them.
GO DIE POOPY RACER!

Is it possible for you guys to make an option
for a game involving typing with you get money f
for typing fast.But not that fast at least more
than 30wpm. Also I wanted to say that this
program has helped me typing in school.

Can you get any quotes from High School Musical
3 because I know there are many people who love
this movie. Did you know that I think this game
will improve your typing skills. Come to think
of this, my friend has went from a 28wpm to a
56wmp. So I thank this program for letting our
acedemic skills reach a high and satisfing
grade.
Thanks a lot I really appriciate it.